• Controlling concept
• Integrated profit and financial planning
• operational controlling instruments
• IT-supported controlling
• Cost planning with ERP systems
• ERP systems

• Cloud FinOps
• Servitization and controlling
• Digitalization in controlling
• Sustainability controlling

Consultation hours during the summer semester 2024 always take place on Wednesdays from 14.00h to 15.00h. Exceptions are 20.03., 17.04, 15.05 and  12.06.2024. Appointments can be made by e-mail to  stefan.rech@ 8< SPAM protection, please remove >8 hwg-lu.de

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• Member of the Faculty Council

• Association of German Engineers (VDI)
• Working Group Controlling Professorships at Universities ( AKC)
• SAP Alumni Network

• Since October 2023: Professor of Business Administration, in particular Controlling and Information Management, at the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society.
• 2021 - 2023: Chief Operating Officer with power of attorney for the Global Cloud Services division at SAP SE Walldorf.
• Since 2021: Lecturer for Investment and Finance in the degree programs Digital Business Management at the DHBW in Karlsruhe.
• 2006 - 2020: Part-time doctorate at the Chair of Corporate Management and Controlling at the University of Bamberg, Degree Dr. rer. pol.
• 2017 - 2020: Head of Business Office for Global Cloud Services at SAP SE Walldorf.
• 2014 - 2016: Chief Controlling Officer for the Executive Board division Global Service & Support at SAP SE in Walldorf.
• 2011 - 2013: Head of Cloud Controlling at SAP AG in Walldorf.
• 2007 - 2010: Head of Cloud TCO for the cloud solution SAP Business ByDesign in Research and Development at SAP AG in Walldorf.
• 2005 - 2006: Project Manager for the Service & Support Portfolio at SAP AG in Walldorf.
• 1997 - 2005: Studied economics at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Degree Diplom-Kaufmann (Univ.).
• 2002 - 2005: Senior Consultant for Working Capital Optimization of energy companies at IBM Deutschland GmbH in Stuttgart.
• 1996 - 2002: Senior Controller for the Global Service & Support and Global IT divisions at SAP AG in Walldorf.
• 1991 - 1995: Studied Industrial Engineering at Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Degree in Industrial Engineering (FH)

• 2022 Dienstleistungscontrolling, in: Becker, W./Ulrich, P. (eds.), HandbuchControlling, 2nd edition, Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden, 2022
• 2020 Dienstleistungscontrolling - Ein wertschöpfungsorientierter Beitrag zur konzeptionellen, theoretischen und empirischen Fundierung, Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden, 2020 (also dissertation Univ. Bamberg)
• 2014 Dienstleistungscontrolling: Grundlagen - Ansätze - Entwicklungsperspektiven, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 2014 (together with Wolfgang Becker)
• 2013 Value-added-oriented service controlling, in: Controlling, 25th vol. (2013), issue 10 (together with Wolfgang Becker)